Watch scientists decipher burnt scrolls without unrolling them
Nature, Published online: 22 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02920-8 By making and burning their own papyrus, researchers have come up with a method that might help to read glowing text from unopened scrolls from Herculaneum.
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